Cop, Woman Remain In Critical Condition After South Chicago Fire

CHICAGO, IL - Two Chicago police sergeants and a civilian female were hospitalized early Wednesday morning in a building fire in the city's South Chicago neighborhood. The injured woman and one of the officers who responded remained in critical condition at the University of Chicago trauma center later in the morning.

Firefighters were able to rescue the woman and a daughter in the family who was in a wheelchair after the father flagged down police in the area to alert them to the fire in the 7900 block of South Muskegon Avenue around 3 a.m., Chicago police reported. The daughter was also briefly hospitalized for evaluation.

Both the daughter and one of the officers have been released from the hospital as of 9 a.m. Wednesday while the mother and the other officer remain there for treatment. Their condition remained critical as of 10 a.m.

The fire spread to a second home on the block before it was put out around 4:50 a.m., ABC-7 reports. How it started remains under investigation.

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